Monday, May 30, 2005

Eurosceptic peer receives EU grant

The Guardian today reports that a eurosceptic peer who believes that EU subsidies are a "vast swindle" has received EU grants to replant on his estate. Surely not a hypocrite:

Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the independent Conservative peer who was expelled from the Tories by Michael Howard for backing the rival United Kingdom Independence Party, has tabled bills in the House of Lords demanding Britain's immediate withdrawal from the European Union.